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2010

Greens congratulate Tongan Democratic Party on winning election

Green MP Keith Locke today congratulated the Tongan Democratic Party for its election victory yesterday.  Mr Locke has been actively supporting the Tongan democracy movement for twenty years. He recently visited Tonga in August as part of a team of New Zealand MPs.

Right to silence cancelled

It’s great that the NZ Herald, in an editorial this morning , recognises that “New Zealanders stand to lose some hard-won freedoms under a bill Read More

Hobbit debate moving into the realms of fantasy

In the spirit of the film itself, the Hobbit debate is moving into the realms of fantasy. Last night around 100 people, organised by the Read More

10.10.10 Global Working Bee

Three Green MPs talk about the global climate action day 10.10.10.

Latest terrorist designations undermine New Zealand’s role as a...

One of my aims, as a Green MP, has been to get New Zealand to specialise in international peacemaking, using Norway as a model. Norway Read More

At last, Key congratulates Chinese Nobel prize winner

On Friday the great news came through the Liu Xiaobo, jailed for his promotion of the Chinese democracy manifesto, Charter 08, had been awarded the Read More

MPs go flatting

Under surveillance by the SIS, living with teenage girls and Greenpeace activists above a factory, mushrooms growing in the shower and views of the Sydney Opera house – Green Party MPs recount their most memorable flatting experiences.

Make a submission in support of fairness at work

Parliament’s Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee has allowed only a very short timeframe for people to make submissions on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill Read More

Woods is the wrong man to investigate dodgy investigations

The Greens didn't go along with the parliamentary vote for three new part-time members of the Independent Police Conduct Authority. This was because one nominee was Richard Woods, the head of the SIS from 1999 to 2006, the man who presided over the Ahmed Zaoui fiasco.

OAG’s report on defence fraud

The Auditor-General has come out with a very disturbing report on the NZ Defence Forces defrauding the United Nations over accommodation payments for NZDF seconded Read More